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Al has blindsided cloud native infrastructure management, rendering established platform engineering woefully inadequate. Original platform engineering often suffers from a developer-only focus, but a platform that serves only one persona in a multi-persona organization ultimately delivers a shrinking fraction of its potential enterprise value. Autonomous agents are already beginning to write, review, test, and deploy code or fixes with or without human intervention. This shifts the primary organizational bottleneck from writing code to delivering it safely and quickly. The gap requires a new model: Platform Engineering 2.0.

IN 2005, NOKIA SOLD its billionth mobile phone, a budget-friendly device that went to a customer in Nigeria. By then, the company, based in Espoo, Finland, was making one of every three cellphones globally. But just nine years later, the mobile-device maker offloaded its entire handset division to Microsoft for pennies on the dollar, compared to what it had been worth at its peak.

Finally, after a lot of work over a long period of time, I have a new non-fiction book out, co-written with Ines Akrap. It’s [“Building the Sustainable Web”, out with Apress now](/books/building-the-sustainable-web).

Today I am 45, so I am releasing music for the first time in about 15 years. A look at my musical journey and the new EP I am releasing.

AI tools are transforming how we approach complex problems by automating tasks, enhancing decision-making, and fostering collaboration. This article explores the impact of AI on my software development work, ethical considerations, and the future of problem-solving in the AI-driven era.

A guide to designing, building, and hosting digital products that respect people and the planet, covering infrastructure, backend architecture, frontend performance, UX, content strategy, and marketing practices that reduce environmental impact while improving performance and accessibility.

A practical guide to documentation for software developers, covering essential grammar, language tips, and the fundamental types and styles of technical writing.

A revised edition covering advanced CSS techniques, patterns, layouts, and methods for building beautiful, modern front ends beyond the basics.

DZone's 2023 Automated Testing Trend Report assessing current trends in automated testing, from architecture and test-driven development to the observed benefits of AI and low-code tools.

An introduction to the building blocks of responsive web design, covering grid systems, media queries, responsive text, images, and video.

A Vale linter style I created that implements rules from Apple's style guide.

An Obsidian plugin that connects Trello cards to Obsidian notes, which I contribute to.

A Vale client for Obsidian that I created, bringing prose linting into Obsidian notes.

A Vale linter style I created that aims to replicate Grammarly's checks in an open-source, privacy-friendly way.

A Visual Studio Code extension I created for rendering markdown to PDF, Word, or HTML using Pandoc, without leaving the editor.